Animation

[louismrose]

For some types of DSL, some simple behaviour rules can be used to "animate" (i.e. simulate or execute) models. Examples include: passing tokens in Petri nets; firing transitions in state machines; calculating concentrations of substances in a gene regulatory network.

Eugenia Live might be enhanced with some simple mechanism for expressing the semantics of a DSL. Perhaps this could be specified for each node and edge in the DSL using an "events and triggers" language.

Execution of the behaviour could occur server-side, and AJAX could be used to update the canvas to indicate the current state of execution.

[JoostvanPinxten]

For the progress in this topic, please refer to my branch of EuGENia Live.

[louismrose]

The animation branch now contains most of Joost's commits from his fork, rebased on the recent architectural changes (switching to Bower / Yeoman / Grunt rather than Hem).

There is still some dependency on incremental rendering (issue #6) that needs to be resolved before the animation branch can be merged into master.

[louismrose]

The animation branch now needs to be rebased on master. The rendering branch mentioned in this issue has now been fully merged.